Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 20 November 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action
Supporting a Just Transition: Discussion (Resumed)
Mr. Brian Carroll:
I think there is a distinction to be drawn between how EU targets are framed and an economy-wide approach to decarbonising. The EU regime is divided into two sectors, the emissions trading system, ETS, which is a cap on trade, where electricity falls on the non-ETS which covers other sectors. It would not be correct to say that it does not reduce our emissions on an economy-wide basis.
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